Editor:
The community’s great George debate has now gone past the merely disappointing, beyond the downright McCarthyesque, and finally arrived at the land of the transparently and refreshingly honest.
The latest comes from Mr. A. Olson (previously identified by Coast Reporter as a large campaign contributor to Messrs. Rowe, Lumley, Valeriote, White and Ms. SanJenko), in his letter to Coast Reporter dated May 21. Mr. Olson does an excellent job of articulating the absolute sense of frustration and betrayal experienced by “150 residents” in the community that the “three first-term councillors” did not simply behave like the three blind mice or three stooges, as they were clearly expected to, now that they are in office.
Instead, according to Mr. Olson, these three councillors had the surprising and galling audacity to show up to the May 12 Gibsons council meeting as something best described as a mix of the three amigos and the three tenors.
As they say, the first rule of politics is to get elected. Candidates may say just about anything in order to reach that goal. Once elected, it’s quite a different matter. This is a good reminder to all of us that “you pays your money and you takes your chances.”
Given that our three tenors are just now starting to find their voices, perhaps the fat lady has not yet sung down at the Gibsons Harbour waterfront after all. Who knows? Our “three first-term councillors” may yet prove to be the three musketeers, or even the three wise men!
At the very least, it should be an interesting third (and hopefully final) act to this drawn-out drama.
A. Donenfeld, Gibsons
